Hey guys. It's humid here and we are feeling lazy. Still alive and well in cali. We are flying out bright and early to the BEACH!!! Will write you from there and hopefully regain our energy and have exciting things to tell you. Funny tidbit. Hilary got stalked by a mine today and he imitated her for the longest time while she tried to ignore him so I had to give him some money. What? It was funny.

Hi all! First off, Richard - I have been going on about wanting to go to a soccer game ever since we got here - Erika was the one who didn?t care too much - needless to say, I was sooooo jealous that she got to go! Nevertheless, had a fun day exploring old town Quito - fantastic architecture there, lovely old buildings. Most of the streets were closed to vehicles and open only to bicycles, as that seems to be what they do there on Sundays. It made it quite pleasa...

Well we did end up spliting up yesterday so we might as well write seperate enteries. I was quite pleased with my plan to be all peaceful and lazy and grabbed my book and sat outside our hostel and read for a few minutes in the sun. I decided to add a little people watching to my busy schedule *which consisted entirely of meeting Hil at a coffeeplace at 3* and headed for the main busy touristy street where we are staying. It was sunday and still pretty quite and ...

Well so far Quito is nice. We were here about five minutes before we ran into Jeff on the street and made a date to meet him later that night so he could show us the local night life. I was feeling sort of meh but 2 gin and tonics cured that and we had a fun night out- first at a bar owned by a guy from Vancouver (we moaned over the lack of Caesars) and then at a night club.  Good times left very late without realising it and somehow managed to remember...

So... the next day. We?d been planning on doing a jungle tour, so we went around when we got into Tena to talk to a few tour operators. From what we found out, everything was highly organized, and not remote at all (sounds like you need to go on pretty long tours to get to see real, untouched Amazon rainforest). We?ve both come to the conclusion that we?re not good tour people - I?m not too keen on having someone telling me when I can eat, when I can go swimming,...